Bobby London was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950. He attended AdelphiUniversity, but left in his sophomore year after a visit to the WoodstockMusic & Art Festival convinced him to move to the San Francisco Bay Area todraw for the underground press. After a shaky start he created his mostdurable character, Dirty Duck, in 1970. The cigar-smoking fowl quacked wisepublicly for the first time in the Los Angeles Free Press in 1971 and waseventually running simultaneously in National Lampoon and Playboy. London isthe recipient of the Yellow Kid Award from the International Salon of Comicsin Lucca, Italy, and his illustrations have appeared in the New York Times,Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and rhe Washington Post. Hisall-ages comic series Cody, based on his illustrations for the New YorkTimes Op-Ed page, ran in Nickelodeon Magazine. In 2000 he moved toHollywood, where he worked on Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, andThe Spongebob Squarepants Movie. He contributed a comic book story based onhis experiences in the New York punk scene to the 2005 Rhino Records boxedset anthology Weird Tales of the Ramones, which was nominated for a Grammy.Most recently London adapted the Grimm Brothers' yarn "Sweet Porridge" forChris Duffy's Fairy Tale Comics. He currently resides in Southern Californiawith former Six Flags artist Karen Angelica and their dog, Chilibean. London's 6 yearrun writing and drawing the Popeye daily comic strip for King Features (1986-1992)has just been released in its entirety for the first time by IDW Publishing.